
Of course, that emotion is tied up in the film’s narrative subtext about what happens to a rock group-and obviously not just any rock group-when it approaches the end of its long and winding road.įor decades, the Let it Be sessions were regarded as a time of nasty infighting (George quits!), dueling egos (Paul thinks he’s daddy!), and the divisive presence of Yoko Ono at John’s side. I’ve watched the whole thing twice now and each time I wished it wouldn’t end. Clocking in at eight hours, Peter Jackson’s intimate love letter to John, Paul, George, and Ringo is culled from 60 hours of raw footage from 1969’s Let it Be sessions and is full of revelations for even the most obsessive scholars of the band. If you haven’t watched the new Beatles documentary, Get Back, you’ve certainly heard about it by now.

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